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{{olpcboxtop}}
{{User time zone|UTC|world}}
{{olpcboxbottom}}
OLPC Boxes (often shortened to '''OBX''') are sets of templates that put attractive consistent "badging" on wiki pages.
For example [[Activities]] use them; some user pages use them.
: ''For a full guide you can see '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:UBX Wikipedia:Userboxes]'''''
:  ''(with caveats given the idea has been adapted for the OLPC)''


* {{tl|olpcboxtop}} &mdash; used to 'start' a box.
** ... some boxes ... &mdash; in the shape of <tt><nowiki>{{</nowiki>OBX ''boxname|params''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></tt> or <tt><nowiki>{{</nowiki>User ''boxname|params''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></tt>
** {{tl|olpcboxbreak}} &mdash; for creating 'sections' within the box
** {{tl|olpcboxmacro}} &mdash; short for specifying a series of <tt><nowiki>{{</nowiki>OBX ''boxname|params''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></tt>
** {{tl|userboxmacro}} &mdash; short for specifying a series of <tt><nowiki>{{</nowiki>User ''boxname|params''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></tt>
* {{tl|olpcboxbottom}} &mdash; used to 'close' a box.

; See also : [[OBX proposals]]


==Usage==

<table border="1">
<tr>
<th width="60%">OLPCBoxes command</th>
<th>What it produces</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><nowiki>{{user mail|email|address.com}}</nowiki></td>
<td>{{user mail|email|address.com}}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><nowiki>{{User support-gang}}</nowiki></td>
<td>{{User support-gang}}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><nowiki>{{User design-gang}}</nowiki></td>
<td>{{User design-gang}}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><nowiki>{{User time zone|UTC-5|world}}
<br />See the [[Template:User_time_zone|template]] for more information.</nowiki></td>
<td>{{User time zone|UTC-5|world}}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><nowiki>{{user en}}</nowiki>
<br />Many of these language templates are capable of identifying user's language competence as well (for example; beginner, moderate, fluent, native speaker). This is done by adding a <tt>-1</tt> to the language abbreviation in the command. The numbers are: 1 = basic, 2 = intermdiate, 3 = advanced, 4 = near-native, 5 = professional, N = native.
<br />af = Afrikaans
<br />ar = arabic
<br />bg = Bulgarian
<br />da = Danish
<br />de = German
<br />el = Greek
<br />en = English
<br />es = Spanish
<br />fr = French
<br />ht = Haitian Creole
<br />hu = Hungarian
<br />it = Italian
<br />ja = Japanese
<br />ko = Korean
<br />leet = Leet
<br />ne = Nepali
<br />nl = Dutch
<br />no = Norwegian
<br />pl = Polish
<br />pt = Portuguese
<br />ro = Romanian
<br />ru = Russian
<br />tl = Tagalog
<br />zh = Chinese
</td>
<td>{{user en}}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><nowiki>{{User Boston}}</nowiki></td>
<td>{{User Boston}}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><nowiki>{{User student|graduate|Computer Science Engineering at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Michigan University of Michigan]
 }}</nowiki></td>
<td>{{User student|graduate|Computer Science Engineering at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Michigan University of Michigan]}}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><nowiki>{{User teacher}}</nowiki></td>
<td>{{User teacher}}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><nowiki>{{User teacher primary|''school name/link''}}</nowiki></td>
<td>{{User teacher primary|''school name/link''}}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><nowiki>{{User teacher university|''uni-link-or-name''}}</nowiki></td>
<td>{{User teacher university|''uni-link-or-name''}}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><nowiki><div style="float:left;border:solid #99b3ff 1px;margin:1px;">
{| cellspacing="0" style="width:260px;background:#e0e8ff;"
| style="width:45px;height:45px;background:#99b3ff;text-align:center;font-size:14pt;" | '''{{{1}}}'''
| style="font-size:8pt;padding:4pt;line-height:1.25em;text-align:center;" | {{{3}}}<hr>These users speak '''[[{{{2}}} language|{{{2}}}]]'''.
|}</div></nowiki></td>
<td><div style="float:left;border:solid #99b3ff 1px;margin:1px;">
{| cellspacing="0" style="width:260px;background:#e0e8ff;"
| style="width:45px;height:45px;background:#99b3ff;text-align:center;font-size:14pt;" | '''{{{1}}}'''
| style="font-size:8pt;padding:4pt;line-height:1.25em;text-align:center;" | {{{3}}}<hr>These users speak '''[[{{{2}}} language|{{{2}}}]]'''.
|}</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><nowiki>{{User community repair}}</nowiki></td>
<td>{{User community repair}}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><nowiki>{{User edtech}}</nowiki></td>
<td>{{User edtech}}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><nowiki> </nowiki></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>


 <nowiki>{{olpcboxtop</nowiki>
  | align =           &lt;!-- { <u>'''left'''</u> | right } --&gt;
  | left =            &lt;!-- Any left margin value. Defaults to <u>'''1'''</u>. --&gt;
  | backgroundcolor = &lt;!-- Any [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors web color] (name or <tt>#XXXXXX</tt> hex format). Defaults to <u>'''<tt>#FFFFFF</tt>'''</u>. --&gt;
  | bordercolor =     &lt;!-- Any [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors web color] (name or <tt>#XXXXXX</tt> hex format). Defaults to <u>'''<tt>#99B3FF</tt>'''</u>. --&gt;
  | extra-css =       &lt;!-- Allows you to provide additional [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets CSS] style information. --&gt;
  | textcolor =       &lt;!-- Any [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors web color] (name or <tt>#XXXXXX</tt> hex format). Defaults to <u>'''<tt>#000000</tt>'''</u>. --&gt;
  | toptext =         &lt;!-- Overrides the standard <u>'''[[[[Olpcboxes]]]]'''</u> text and link. Can include wiki-markup. --&gt;
  }}
 
 [olpcboxes]
 
 {{tl|olpcboxbottom}}

All of the parameters are '''optional'''.  You may also insert breaks by using {{tl|olpcboxbreak}}. See that template for details.

==Hiding olpcboxes==
You can hide olpcboxes which utilize this (as well as a few other) forms of template-based userbox organization. Simply edit your userspace CSS override (for example, [[Special:Mypage/monobook.css|monobook.css]] for the Monobook skin) and add the following–

<code><nowiki>table.userboxes { display: none; }</nowiki></code>

<code><nowiki>table.olpcboxes { display: none; }</nowiki></code>


[[Category:OBX templates]]